Reading to the End: Why Most Christians Would Be Atheists if They Knew Only a Little More

Bryan John Appleby’s debut LP, Fire on the Vine, opens with “Noah’s Nameless Wife,” a deeply disturbing personal portrait of Noah’s Flood. If you haven’t listened to it before, go ahead and do that. I’ll wait. Imagine the tumult of countless men, women, and children crying, moaning, and groaning into the air above the rising […]

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Training Wheels for the Infinite; Or, Why I Tremble on a Roof and Slumber in a Plane

I have often wondered why I feel more palpable fear while standing safely on the roof of a building than I do while looking out the window of a plane. In rational terms, I can easily comprehend that floating in what amounts to a closed metal tube a few thousand feet above ground is more […]

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Why Tolstoy Was Wrong about Happiness: A Review of Deep Sea Diver, SECRETS

In a roundabout way, SECRETS, Deep Sea Diver’s second full-length album proves that Tolstoy’s adage about happy families might be exactly wrong.

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On Left-Handed Drinking Fountains and Not Making it Into Gideon’s Army

Back while I was attending college almost a decade ago, I had a very awkward experience once with a drinking fountain that shot water from the left side rather than the right. I found myself incapable of drinking water from it, slurping and lapping awkwardly with little success. I hadn’t really thought about it before […]

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